Re: 6to4 vs forwarding IP proto41 in NAT

["JORDI PALET MARTINEZ" <jordi.palet@consulintel.es>]

Rute,

1) I don't think the purpose of the IETF documents/work is only for *significant* contributions to current deployment status, and I
explained this in the yesterday session. The work describes the situation that isn't documented (but used).
2) If the vendors don't want to use native or 6to4, and we don't have a backup option, we miss the chance to help the people to
connect to IPv6 in a way that we know is possible. My survey show that the subset of "scenarios" is big enough to be very relevant.

The update has been done yesterday night, with the inputs received during the meeting, and I will wait some more days for additional
inputs before an "official" publication.

Regards,
Jordi

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rute C. Sofia" <rsofia@seas.upenn.edu>
To: "JORDI PALET MARTINEZ" <jordi.palet@consulintel.es>
Cc: <v6ops@ops.ietf.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 1:41 PM
Subject: Re: 6to4 vs forwarding IP proto41 in NAT


> Jordi,
>
>
> > This is exactly what I already reflected in the new version of the draft.
> >
> > I will wait for more inputs before publish it.
>
>
> I understand the point of your document, but really do not see a place for
> it... It's not so much a question of the "mechanism" (it is here; it is
> used
> sometimes), but really, a question of the purpose of the document.
> There has to be a clear purpose (and maybe I'm missing it), otherwise,
> we just end up adding more entropy...Can you please answer clearly the
> following questions:
>
> 1) does the document introduce a *significant* contribution to current
> deployment status?
> 2) if something should be forced to vendors, that should be either ipv6 or
> 6to4 ;-). Why impose a third option, given that only a subset of scenarios
> will *possibly* gain with it ??
>
> And, a bit out of scope in technical terms...out of curiosity, if you
> already have an "updated" version of the draft (updated in which sense??),
> why didn't you present it yesterday?
>
> thanks,
> rute
>

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